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As dull and impersonal as a sheaf of open-enrollment insurance forms, Office Christmas Party brings together — and underutilizes — several funny performers from TV shows (Silicon Valley, Veep, SNL) that pinpoint what this dim comedy does not: the specifics of workplace environments and their particular pathologies and joys. Under...

Katie Holmes’ directorial debut, All We Had, could be called It’s Going to Be Okay, the mantra of its downtrodden but resilient characters. Screenwriters Jill Killington and Josh Boone (Stuck in Love) extract a hopeful, we’re-all-in-this-together storyline from Annie Weatherwax’s first novel, which details the struggles of the working poor...

How often has a mainstream film tackled the real-life anxieties of the kind of questioning teens who turn to Tumblr and Reddit to learn the facts of life? Mostly because it's complicated and uncharted territory, a lot of adults just don't get it. The flourishing variety of gender and sexual-preference...

The cussedness of La La Land is almost enough to recommend it. Damien Chazelle's sumptuous tribute to romantics trying to keep lit the fire of a guttering culture is defiantly old-fashioned in form and style. It is, among other things, a throwback to the great MGM musicals of the Gene...

Maggie Cheung, like all screen sublimities, inhabits multiple temporalities: She is past, present, and future. The filmmaker Olivier Assayas once described the actress as "an up-to-date version of an old-fashioned movie star." He elaborated when I spoke to him a decade ago about Clean (2004), the second of two projects...